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Diary - Monday 9 January 2006

9 January 2006

Clattenburg got suckered for two penalties, then.

A new item on Town's official website today is headlined Where is Redds?, raising initial fears that the club's Irish frontman may be following Jean-Paul Kamudimba Kalala to the African Cup of Nations after discovering a Senegalese maternal grandparent, or even alerting older readers to the possibility of the player executing a Gordon Hobson-esque flit to Southampton quick while the transfer window is open. But the question is a competition, and entrants must email and tell the OS where a Santa-hatted Michael Reddy is standing, in a photograph with the words PONNY TOILETS scrawled behind him. You could win a pair of tickets to this Saturday's game against Mansfield if you can work out the catch.

The OS is also on hand to let us know that livewire striker Tony Crane opened his account for Worksop Town on Saturday and paid in a 35-yard free kick, but it'll take three days to clear. (At some point in the last week - I forget when - it became apparent from somewhere - I forget where - that Crane's transfer to the Nottinghamshire side is a loan, until such time as GTFC give up trying to negotiate and pay up the rest of his £2,000-a-week contract just to get him off the books on a permanent basis.) It's a shame they were unable to let us know that Jermaine Palmer has just returned to Blundell Park from his loan at Hinckley United, where he scored four times in nine appearances; perhaps we are to assume that Palmer has even less of a future with the Mariners than Crane?

Big Tony's fellow livewire striker Jones the Lump was in contention for some fourth division player of the month thing, apparently. Gary, as close friends get to call him, seems to have been one of four players nominated for the December prize following some good performances and goals against Rochdale and Bury. But he didn't win it. Some bloke from Northampton did. Perhaps the judges were, er, from Yorkshire. Yeah.

Oh, and Town are third in the league now, cos Carlisle won again on Saturday while their manager thought GTFC were playing in the cup. Well, it seems to work for him, and if Russ calling the African Cup of Nations "the African World Cup" is the price we have to pay for automatic promotion, so be it. No, I don't know what I'm on about either.

Just the one email today, and just the three words in it. "Viriginia Wolf?" writes Paul Wright. "Editor?" Paul is referring to one of the typos that appeared in early editions of Friday's late-published guest Diary and presumably managed to fire off his email in the six minutes before Cod Almighty's lowly sub-ed managed to correct all nine of them. Thanks, Paul. It's good to know CA's normally high standards of grammar, spelling and punctuation are; apresiated.